Ethical Philosophy Test (user search)

Quote from: patrick1 on January 16, 2005, 03:08:41 PM

Quote from: Senator Al on January 16, 2005, 12:38:32 PM

Nietzsche's "superman" theory is digusting. As are a lot of his other ideas come to think of it... killing all disabled people is just... urgh...

The abuse and the distortion of the ubermensch idea are disgusting. Nietzche's postulation of Overman in Zarathustra is much more benign. Man is the bridge between animal and overman. The overman is simply a higher state of conciousness and understanding. The Herbert Spencer like arguments were not explicitly stated by Nietzche. You can blame his popularizers for that- mainly his siter who was a National Socialist and perverted many of his writings. Nietzsche was no Nazi and would have looked unkindly on them. One of the reasons he broke with Wagner was due to Wagners anti-semitism. Nietzche also frequently criticized Prussian/German natiopnalism and militarism. Nietzche was a very complex and often contradictory philosopher. He is frequently taken out of context and misunderstood. On the whole, I disagree with his general ideas but I think he gets an bad rap on many things.

well said. Still, the main thing I remember about him was that he was, above all, a very lonely and sickly man. Also, he was a victim of venereal disease. All in all, he was quite a weirdo. I remember I used to quote him often in my early days on this forum. Good for quotes, but still freakish. My result:

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2. Kant (98%) Click here for info
3. Spinoza (85%) Click here for info
4. Jean-Paul Sartre (72%) Click here for info
5. Aquinas (71%) Click here for info
6. Nietzsche (71%) Click here for info
7. Ayn Rand (68%) Click here for info
8. John Stuart Mill (65%) Click here for info
9. Prescriptivism (65%) Click here for info
10. Epicureans (57%) Click here for info
11. David Hume (56%) Click here for info
12. Aristotle (53%) Click here for info
13. Jeremy Bentham (53%) Click here for info
14. Thomas Hobbes (44%) Click here for info
15. St. Augustine (40%) Click here for info
16. Ockham (39%) Click here for info
17. Cynics (38%) Click here for info
18. Nel Noddings (34%) Click here for info
19. Plato (31%) Click here for info

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